It was a long and eventful day. Now that I’m back home in safe Provence I can digest this 17th of May that I passed in Oslo… And it was quite something.
As most did I suppose, we started by going to the main street in which the parades went on. As soon as I got to the subway station I got flooded of red and Norwegian flags. Ja vi elsker dette landet, Yes we love this land.
The main street was now a giant big Norwegian flag. Oslo that seems so quiet on normal days was now crowded with Norwegians walking around in their national dress and flags and the sounds of drums from the marching bands were omnipotent. But that wasn’t it.

Indeed we then met Solvor, Sabrina’s friend, who brought us to this Norvegian Socialist Christian Society party in a huge flat right around the corner, and there bottles of Cava – spanish champagne – kept appearing straight from heaven.

And then they played “Fairytale”, the Norwegian song that had just won the Eurovision contest on Saturday, putting the [enormous] speakers right on the windows so people started dancing in the streets. That was one of the funniest party I’ve even been to.

But then if that wasn’t enough we then went to a terrasse bar to have more drinks, which was very nice because I got a suntan.

And then, finally, we went to Grünerløkka to have more beers, wine and barbecue. It was crowded there also and people were grilling their hotdogs everywhere in the good Norwegian tradition. Yes, that was a tiring day. At 9 p.m I suddenly realised that I waws thirsty like a coyote because I had been drinking champagne and other alcoholised substanses for almost 10 hours in the middle of day under the [not famed enough] Norwegian sun… Crisis. Luckily they sell water in this country, for only 6$ a bottle. Herregud!